Hi Pat. Did you have slides that I could get a copy of? I was busy troubleshooting an odd firewall issue, and now that I am done, I figure all you guys are probably done/heading out. (If you're heading to mead hall, let me know, I'll head over).
Thanks. rgt Whitehead Network/System Administrator ----- Original Message ----- > > > > John, Adam, et. al. have always mentioned "Hey, BBLISA is a great > place to dry run your presentations before you go elsewhere!" And > when John mentioned he needed a speaker for January, I had this in > the works and said "Hey, sure!" To that end, I am actively seeking > feedback and iteration on this. > > > One note though: This talk is geared mostly towards a business crowd, > not a sysadmin crowd -- since I'm giving this talk at a business > school in February. My goal is to trying and package up some stuff > we see on our side of the world and put a bow on it for business > types and say: > - Hey, here are some reasons your central/enterprise IT group is > frustrating. > - "Putting some cloud on it" sounds pretty enticing. I think this is > why. > - Here are things you may want to think about to turn your IT > department from a cost center into a business peer > > > I look forward to a good conversation tonight! > > > > - Patrick > > > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Alva Couch < [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > On 1/8/2014 1:23 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > > > I'm hoping that Patrick Cable's talk tonight will provide the > magic bullet (or at least a hint) on how to deal with "customer" > expectations > in the face of wildly varying errors in time estimates for tasks. > > I second that. This is a constant pain for me both as service > provider (with other customers) and as service customer (with other > providers). > > -- > Alva L. Couch > Associate Professor of Computer Science > Tufts University, Medford MA 02155 > http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~couch > > > > ______________________________ _________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/ listinfo/bblisa > > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
